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re: military stuff, what happens when you talk badly about boston dynamics on twitter 

according to some wojack pfp dude i'm incredibly stupid and scientifically illiterate because robot soldiers don't actually currently exist, so it's not possible that this military company would be working on that!

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(.epub reader in the sense of Windows or iOS software or browser extension or the like)

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Does anyone know of an epub reader that doesn't suck? My best solution so far is converting the .epub to a .pdf and reading it in the browser, but I would prefer not to do something so mildly inconvenient.

Smartphones and smartphone apps are bad for your mental health. And it's rude to expose your friends to services run by organizations like Google and Apple for this reason and many others.

‪if when you suggest an order O2 good, people push back and say it’s not good, it’s probably order O1‬

‪if when you suggest an order O3 good, ‬people point out systemic incentives leading it to be hard to do, it’s probably order O2

‪if when you suggest an order O4 good, someone comes up with a ridiculous unrealistic contrived example in which it could be “okay” not to do, it’s probably order O3

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order 1 obvious good: you recognise it as good

order 2 obvious good: above + your friends recognise it as good

order 3 obvious good: above + many other people are doing it

order 4 obvious good: above + you have no possible reason not to do it

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